Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
‘He’s a Mouse’: Russell Simmons Speaks Some Truth on Obama
09 May 2007
by Paul Street For what it's worth, Russell Simmons doesn't think much of Barack Obama. The hip hop businessman prefers former Senator John Edwards, who "has said more things about the…
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A New Book on Clarence ‘The Lawn Jockey’ Thomas
09 May 2007
by George E. Curry The man who depicted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a lawn jockey on the cover of Emerge magazine, back in 1993, presents a positive review of a new book on "the…
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Corporate Greed and Private Prisons
09 May 2007
by Charlene Muhammad The Prison Industrial Complex is rapidly becoming a private enterprise gulag, "a modern-day slave system" in which the bulk of toilers are Black. Huge corporations fatten…
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Climate Change Means Death for Millions
09 May 2007
by Desmond Tutu South African former Anglican Archbishop Tutu wonders how "cushioned and cosseted" residents of the rich countries would regard the prospect of global climatic change "if they…
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No Black Plan for the Cities, Despite the Lessons of Katrina
09 May 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Katrina catastrophe indisputably revealed the corporate plan for America's cities. No sooner had the waters receded than corporate planners devised…
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Devolution in Ghana: 50 Years After Independence
08 May 2007
by Ron Wilkins Africana Studies professor Ron Wilkins interviews Ghanaian editor and activist Kwesi Pratt at the half-century mark of the nation's independence. Pratt says two celebrations were…
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Big Media Censor the Kucinich-Gravel Tag Team
02 May 2007
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford
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Hip Hop Profanity, Misogyny and Violence: Blame the Manufacturer
02 May 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The often convoluted debate over hip-hop lyrics and images frequently misses the point: mass marketed rap recordings, videos and stage acts are corporate products,…
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A ‘Ho’ By Any Other Color: The History and Economics of Black Female Sexual Exploitation
02 May 2007
by contributing editor Dr. Edward Rhymes While white women's sexuality is celebrated in movies and magazines, Black women acting out the same behavior are relegated to the ranks of whoredom. This…
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May Day in LA: "We Will Not Be Divided"
02 May 2007
by Cynthia McKinney African Americans and immigrants must band together to resist a forced march to the bottom, said the former congresswoman in a May Day speech in Los Angeles. The United States…